Over the past two years, Jack Harlow gone from playing empty bars to selling out venues. At the same time, Shelbyville, Kentucky-born rapper’s single “Whats Poppin” and its remix have garnered over 1 billion streams on Spotify. He add almost a billion more for “Industry Baby,” a collaboration with Lil Nas X. All of this helped to make him the face of the 2022 Forbes Under 30 music list.
In an interview, Harlow talked about many things, including Eminem’s influence over him while growing up:
“Last year it was, ‘Who’s this new white boy on the scene who can rap his ass off? He’s dope.’ This year I am showing the world who I am. I want to be the biggest rapper. I just want everybody to know I love rap and I’m about to take over.”
“My mother played Eminem to me and this is how I was introduced to rap. The writing, the storytelling, the rhythm of it… I was so attracted to it. It made you move, made you dance, feel confident; it made you feel like the man.”
For the full interview, visit Forbes here and while reading, you can bump Eminem’s “Killer (Remix)” with Jack Harlow and Cordae below:
Shady Records’ Westside Boogie has recently set down with HotNewHipHop for an exclusive interview where the Compton rapper revealed that his long-awaited new album, the follow-up of “Everythings For Sale” is around the corner.
Boogie also talked about plans for collaboration album with Smino, why signing to Eminem was the right choice, relationship with GRIP and much more. You can check out the interview below!
On his new album
I think Everythings For Sale was so good, I just want to make sure…Yeah, I’m a perfectionist. I know everybody like, over-uses that word, but I really am a perfectionist. And I won’t put it out unless I believe in it all the way, now I’m finally at a space to where I’m really focused on figuring out paperwork and stuff out now, so now I’m just trolling people at this point. But yeah album done, I’m ready to drop this one and drop another one. I’m just grateful that my fans still waited this long, cause I’d be pissed.
“New album is dropping in the first quarter of 2022” – Westside Boogie
On GRIP, Dreamville, TDE and comparison with Kendrick Lamar
When I saw GRIP signed to Shady, I reached out. Well, he might have reached out first on Instagram. But then I told him, hit me when he was in LA, I just want to make sure we connect, ‘cause Shady Records you know what I’m saying, we’ve got TDE and Dreamvilles running around like they the biggest gangs in America.
I’m cool when they put me in a box with them like, okay, the three, my three favorite rappers, but it’s when they start comparing me to Kendrick. That’s the one, like that’s my favorite rapper too, but it’s also, I’m competitive. So it’s like I think it’d be… sometimes I know the story is similar, we both from Compton, both rap good, but it’s like oh it’s like the same thing and it’s just like lazy listeners…
On Eminem
“I think it was Paul Rosenberg who heard my music first. He just played stuff for Eminem, and what was dope about first meeting Eminem is he didn’t know like, I mean, he knew ‘em, but he wasn’t talking to me about my bigger songs, he was talking to me about the album cuts and the ins and outs of flows that I didn’t think he would know. And that’s what made me trust him because I knew he coming to me because he really f*ck with my music.
On joint album with Smino
Me and Smino have been talking about this project for probably a year. It’s just timing and getting into a studio. We got some records together. Smino’s on my album, I probably shouldn’t say that, but that’s my boy.
Royce Da 5’9″ has recently set down with Lando Bando on The Hip Hop Lab where the Detroit legend had a long conversation about why young Detroit rappers misunderstand Eminem.
“I think the youngins are just regurgitating anecdotical s**t. I don’t think they understand how much they don’t make sense. It’s like, you go and do an interview, you say your top five is Juan, Blade, Herc, Malik and Jesse. ‘What about Eminem? Oh, no, no, no, no. I didn’t really grow up listening to that but I think he is a great lyricist tho.’ I can respect that answer. So…8 Mile, that was not an accurate depiction of Detroit ni**a? Ain’t nobody be on 8 Mile…’I like Royce, Slum Village but they ain’t real Detroit sound.’ I could even take that. Now you are in a position where you can go out and paint the picture of Detroit however you think the world should see Detroit. The fact that you benefited from years and years of groundwork that myself, Marshall, Sean… There are ni**as who are benefiting from things that you don’t even realize. Maybe they will realize in retrospect.”
“Now that you have arrived in this place and Detroit is more visible in terms of the world viewership, just connected to the rest of the world. We used to be like a sea market. Me, Marshall, Slum Village, we were representing sea market. That’s were the no-fly-zone came from. People used to just come here, shoot through real quick, grab a bag and keep it pushing. Trick Trick said ‘no no no no, no more!’ He ruined his relationships, he put his livelihood on the line to stand on the frontline of the city. Nobody gotta say thank you for it or nothing like that. These are just facts. All of these are documented. So, now, you guys got how you all wanted. You are cool. The world loves you all. The world is biting your style. You rap like Detroit, you sound like Detroit, you look like Detroit. What exactly do you want Eminem to do? Do you want to sign to Shady Records? Everybody wanna sign Icewear Vezzo right now. Everybody wanna sign Peasy. Do you see them sign to Shady Records? I think the reason Shady Records is so successful is because they know who they are.”
“They have been publicly condemning Marshall in an attempt to separate themselves from being associated with his name because they think that’s the cool thing to do. It’s not cool thing because ‘Eminem doesn’t f**k with ni**as,’ it’s considered cool thing because ni**as have found a comfort zone in complaining about things. I wonder if they know how crazy they sound. They are making demands based off of an assumption that you have that this person does not f**k with you. They have nothing, no actions, no previous that they can correlate any of this feelings to. They are like ‘WHY HE DON’T EMBRACE ME.’ It speaks to your ignorance and immaturity and how reasonable that you even are willing to be to demand that he pull up. Pull up WHERE, NI**A? FOR WHAT? WHAT ARE WE PULLING UP FOR? Bro, you are talking about grown a** man. Put a daughter to a college. He has been famous for 20 years. The man has not hang out in a nightclub for more than 10 years. The man has not took a drink, thought about drug in over 10 years. He is not same young, wild, out here having fun Eminem that he was when G-unit was running around.”
“Have you seen Eminem on tour? He is just who he is. When he was out and was moving around a certain way, he conducted his business in a way that was indicative of what he was doing at that time. It’s no different from now. He is conducting his business but it’s indicative who he is now and where they are as a brand. Who they sign is none of you ni**as f**king business. Why the f**k do you care if Shady Records sign Griselda? And you don’t want to give him credit just because it’s not the kind of music that you are not into? So we are looking at bunch of crybaby ni**as complaining and yelling about perceived problem not coming with any solutions.”
“Nobody blew the whistle about Marshall getting on that f**king 95 minutes song with all these f**king rappers he didn’t know. He did that because I called him and talked him into it. And it took me a long time to talk him into it. Thank God he adores Sean, he loves Sean. He did not like the beat. You don’t understand how it feels to have a beat that you don’t like that you gotta write the song to. And you gotta represent yourself in somebody else’s world that you don’t even understand. And they don’t understand yours but you are forcing it because you wanna try to make people feel better. Em been damn near on every album Sean got and they shot videos.”
“My first impression at Sada Baby was he creatively fearless. I gotta respect that before anything. That ni**a entertained me before I even understand what he was saying. And I’m not sure that I’m an executive that’s gonna take to the next level. I was sitting there when Dr. Dre played My Name Is sample to Eminem and Marshall said ‘Hi, my name is…’ and Dre was like ‘WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? YOU GOTTA DO THAT’ and he picked a piece of the record that had been sampled over and over again on classic records in hip-hop history but this was way at the end of the song where not other producer would thought to even pull from and that’s where the My Name Is came from. And My Name Is is the reason why Marshall is the Marshall he is today. Without Dr. Dre to have that divine instinct to be able to figure out which record takes you to the next level…without that.. you know what I mean?!… Dre did it over and over again. He did it for Game, he did it for Fifty, for Marshall, he did it for Snoop. Four times he changed the world. He did it with NWA, he did it with himself, he did it with D.L.C. So, Sada Baby, Tee Grizzley, they don’t need Eminem. Who knows what Sada Baby needs? Who knows if he needs anything? That’s up to hi to find that you and figure it out during his journeys. It’s up to us as OGs help facilitate that and do anything we can to water the seed.” – said Nickel
Then Royce continues talking about Kanye West saying signing Big Sean was the worst decision he has ever made, Donda album, Drake and more. You can watch the full thing below:
Back in 2009, Eminem released music video of “We Made You” from Relapse album which featured cameos from 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Oxen, Lisa Ann and Bobby Lee among others.
Comedian Bobby Lee has recently set down with Steve-O’s Wild Ride where he recalled how he ended up on Eminem’s music video.
“One time I was in a Korean restaurant with my girlfriend and this Korean guy comes up to me and he was like ‘hey dude, I like your comedy, I’m director, you wanna do music videos?!’ and I don’t know what it was but I gave my number. So a week later, that dude texted me: ‘tomorrow, music video, Eminem and Dr. Dre!’, I was like, WHAT?!”
“He gave me an address, I show up and next thing I know I’m in a f**kin van with Dr. Dre and Marshall, Eminem! And I’m doing one of their music videos. It’s called ‘We Made You.’ This guy was a f**king director of Eminem’s music video.” said Bobby.
Kanye West has recently done another interview with Drink Champs where the legendary rapper and producer gave a nod to Eminem.
Noregea: “I have recently read that you are one of two artists that has went 10 million and produced their own record.”
Kanye West: “Yeah, Eminem also. Eminem. That’s lit right? It’s like ambidextrous. It feels like it’s another example that I could show you all that we could build communities.”
Last month, Ye’s “Stronger” was certified diamond in the United States for selling 10,000,000 units in the country, the song that was produced by himself.
Eminem did it TWICE as “Not Afraid” and “Lose Yourself” are both certified diamond and both are produced by Eminem himself.
Starring in classics movies like Casper, Final Destination and Little Giants, Devon Sawa is now sharing his body of work with his children as Chucky TV show hits the screens.
In his latest interview with Entertainment Tonight, Devon touched on his memorable role as Stan in Eminem’s hit song of the same name from The Marshall Mathers LP album, which was released in 2000.
“This is one of the most favorite things I have done. I am so proud to talk about that video. Dr. Dre directed it. It was Eminem when he was just coming out. Those 3 days on set were some of the best days I had on set. I was just surrounded by greatness.”
“Dre knew what he was doing those 3 days. You knew how excited he was and he knew what he was doing and what he was getting. So you kind of knew you were being a part of something important.” said Sawa.
He also shared his opinion on Pete Davidson’s parody of “Stan,” saying: “I loved it. It was funny. It was in good taste. A lot of fun. I loved it.”
Snoop Dogg has recently set down with The Breakfast Club, hosted by DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne tha God were he talked about Eminem and the Super Bowl performance with him.
“Man, I love Eminem. The thing is that we love hip-hop so much that we are competitive. We are battle rappers. So that was supposed to trigger in him. But we brothers, we family so e learn to appreciate each other for what we do and how we get down.”
“We had a long conversation about the respect we have for each other and the way we need to talk in public about each other and I felt like I was out of pocket. I apologized him and I let him know that I’m just better than myself. I make mistakes. I ain’t perfect. I am Snoop Dogg.”
Then Snoop continues talking about upcoming Super Bowl performance with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar: “We gotta perform G THANG, definitely wanna here STILL DRE, California Love. But remember, it’s not just me and him. You gotta let Eminem slide out do Forgot About Dre.”
The Fugees icon Wyclef Jean has recently set down with hiphopisreal.com where he talked about Busta Rhyme’s reaction when he heard Eminem for the first time and explains why beef between Eminem and Canibus should had never happened.
“My Eminem experience, it was so…it was Eminem and Canibus. So, here is my Eminem experience, Busta Rhymes will tell you. When he came on my tour bus, he literally broke my tour bus
“He trashed my tour bus. You still owe me for my tour bus. But you know, Busta’s a giant. What are you gonna tell him? He will take you apart with one hand. He went crazy! Till today, I have nightmares of this thing. Busta trashed my beautiful tour bus after listening to this Eminem song.”
“My whole dream was to get Canibus with Eminem. That was my dream. I so wanted that to happen. I know that Eminem had so much love for Canibus. Canibus and Eminem are two of my favorite rappers of all time. I wish beef between them had never happened. I’m a huge fan. Eminem is a complete genius and so is Canibus in his space.” – said Wyclef Jean
Couple of weeks ago, in an interview with Billboard, Elton John compared his experience in the studio with Young Thug to seeing Eminem’s impressive rap skills years back.
“I have seen Marshall Mathers do it in Detroit, but I have never seen someone like Thug come in and do that. In the end, I had to leave because I think he felt a bit intimidated that I was there and I just wanted him to relax. But it is just an amazing moment in my musical life…I have no understanding of how rap records are put together and it is fascinating to watch.” said the legendary singer.
Yesterday, Young Thug visited The Breakfast Club where Charlamagne asked him if he knew what Elton John said about him and Eminem. Here is what Thugger replied: “Right… Look… Of course it’s f**king Eminem.”
Since its inception, the BET Hip-Hop Awards show has recognized rap artists who have created a lasting legacy through their music and beyond. Established back in 2006, the first I Am Hip Hop recipient was legendary Grandmaster Flash. From there, KRS-One, Salt-N-Pepa, Lil Wayne, Lil Kim, Master P, and Uncle Luke have all received the honor.
Yesterday, Nelly accepted the award at the 2021 BET Hip-Hop Awards. In the interview with VIBE Magazine, Nelly talked about his most memorable career moments where he mentioned Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent:
Interviewer: You have been in the industry for a while now doing your thing. Looking back, what have been some of your favorite or most memorable career moments?
Nelly: My favorite career moment is just me getting in. Because you had to understand, again, I am from St. Louis. You know, from the Midwest, from Missouri. Nobody co-signed me. If you look at the majority, a lot of these people who have been successful on some level, they got co-signs. I love Eminem, but I did not have Dr. Dre. I love 50 Cent, but I did not have Eminem and Dr. Dre. I love Snoop, but I did not have Dr. Dre. I love Biggie but I did not have a Diddy. I love 2Pac but I did not have a Digital Underground. Did not nobody put me on stage. Kanye… Did not nobody put no Roc-A-Fella chain around my neck while I am standing on stage. I am saying all these blood, sweat, and tears were built. You talk about getting it out of the mud. All of what I was able to achieve was built with these hands, my crew, and my city.
Elton John’s new album, The Lockdown Sessions, comes out October 22, 2021 but it is far from the only project on the legendary singer’s plate because he is ‘as busy as ever.’
Elton and fellow legend Stevie Wonder has recently spoke to Billboard where John named the rapper who is as spectacular as Eminem at freestyling:
“I was just blown away by Young Thug’s freestyle. I mean, I have seen Marshall Mathers do it in Detroit, but I have never seen someone like Thug come in and do that. In the end, I had to leave because I think he felt a bit intimidated that I was there and I just wanted him to relax. But it is just an amazing moment in my musical life… I have no understanding of how rap records are put together and it is fascinating to watch.” said John.
For the full interview, visit Billboard here or watch it below:
Florida rapper Nardo Wick has recently set down with Kids Take Over where he talked about lots of things, including Eminem.
“Nobody can star-struck me. I’ve seen Drake in the studio. I’ve seen lots of ni**as but no. Eminem probably. I’d still act regular but I’d be like ‘damn.’ I f**k with Eminem hard. Ni**as like Eminem, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and them type of category ni**as.”
“My favorite song by Eminem is probably Rap God or Lose Yourself. It might be Mockingbird or Stan. I like a lot of Eminem s**t.” said Nardo.
